Job Title: Doctor of Audiology(4th years accepted)

Reports To: Owner

Job Status: Full Time

Come join the HIT team in beautiful New Braunfels. Hear in Texas is a family owned and operated private practice on a rapid growth track. We offer a variety of services to pediatric and adult populations so everyday is a new adventure. If we don’t offer it, but you love it, we will add it! Our office and test equipment is state of the art and built for growth.

The perfect Candidate is a team player who enjoys collaborating with other professionals to provide quality care, yet resourceful enough to make their own decisions. This person should be known as someone who is friendly, confident, energetic, fun-loving, open-minded, and ready for anything. We want the best and the best starts with a positive attitude.

If you think you have what it takes to uphold the standards of our team, please submit your resume

Although your education and experience plays a key role in this process, your personality traits and attitude are key priorities.?If this is how your co-workers and friends would describe you, then we may be the ideal match:

• Always happy, smiles a lot, positive attitude, always a pleasure to be around.
• Friendly, warm, caring, a people person – which comes across the very first time you meet someone, even on the telephone.
• Patient, compassionate, helpful especially with older people. Even temperament, calm, always pleasant, unflappable. Has a knack for being able to turn a frown into a smile.
• Committed, dedicated, a great teammate, pitches in without being asked, puts team accomplishments ahead of individual accomplishments.
• Accurate, detailed, wants to get things right, double checks their own work, makes very few mistakes Owns it
• accepts responsibility, credits others for successes and accepts responsibility for failures. Always looking for a constructive way to solve a problem.
• Coachable, accepts feedback with a positive attitude. Always looking for ways to grow and improve.
• Reliable, dependable, doesn’t just arrive on time: often comes in a little early to make sure they’re prepared for the day; willing to stay late when there’s work that needs to be done or a patient needs us

These statements also describe the people you’ll be working alongside, meaning that you’ll quickly discover that this is much more than a group of co-workers, but it feels like “your kind of people.”

As an Audiologist, you will be playing a key role in helping our patients to achieve a lifetime of better hearing while ensuring the highest level standards of care that our reputation has been built upon.

Your job will be to ensure that every patient feels like our only patient.

• Connecting Through Assessments: Initiate a bond by understanding each patient's unique hearing journey. Comprehensive assessments give insights into their personal experiences, needs, and aspirations.
• Sound Sculpting: Employ a range of audiometric tests tailored to each individual. It's about crafting a personal sound experience, enabling them to revel in every auditory detail of their surroundings.
• Navigating Choices Together: Be the guiding hand when it comes to treatment (i.e. hearing aids, ALDs, aural rehabilitation, etc). With so many choices out there, your expertise helps in ensuring every patient gets the tailored care they need and deserve.
• Ongoing Support: Build trust and demonstrate you care by being available for check-ups, reprogramming, or even a chat. Whether it's a tune-up for their device or easing their concerns, you're their go-to person.
• Heartfelt Counseling: This journey has its ups and downs. Go beyond the ‘tech’ talk. We don’t ‘sell hearing aids’, we provide the highest level of hearing healthcare. Offer a listening ear, provide support, and address emotional concerns linked to hearing challenges.
• Embracing Continuous Learning: As the audiology landscape evolves, immerse yourself in the latest advancements. And then? Share that knowledge, bringing optimism and hope to those you care for.

Requirements: The ideal candidate is honorable, caring, intelligent, enthusiastic, outgoing and team oriented. You should be ready to perform medically relevant diagnostics, including audiometry and immittance, as well as treatment-focused testing such as speech-in-noise testing (QuickSIN) and loudness discomfort levels. You are passionate about working with state-of-the-art amplification/assistive technology, improving lives with your care, counseling and technological solutions. You will be expected to improve proficiency with hearing aid dispensing and ongoing hearing aid management with electroacoustic analysis and probe microphone measurements.

Diagnostics

• Comprehensive Hearing Assessment (Pure tone air/bone conduction audiometry, word recognition testing (quiet & noise)
• Immittance testing - tympanometry, acoustic reflexes, reflex decay
• Tinnitus Assessment, Management and Counseling

Dispensing

• Hearing Aid Sales and Counseling
• Hearing Aid Electroacoustic Analysis
• Probe Microphone/Real Ear Measurements
• Counsel/Instruct Patients in Aural Rehabilitation Skills/Techniques